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vol C cl 23. St vol events. opportunities, residence life, student life and cam devel Adm 9: by all prospective and adm graduate students, and a wa W House. This year' Rutgers-Newark” - is scheduled 22 R-N Open House Scheduled for April 1. Campus News 5. Student New www. 2. Faculty 3. New p. 9 4. Upcoming Events/Conferences 1. Campus New homeless and at-risk youth throughout the state. The challenges the ability of the electronic voting machines to collaboration, called the Youth Advocacy Project, is funded count votes accurately, in compliance with voting rights by a grant from the New Jersey State Bar Foundation. laws. The Court reinstated the lawsuit even though all “This initiative brings the considerable experience voting machines in the state must be equipped with a voter of our clinical program in successfully assisting both at-risk verified paper ballot component by 2008. The Court was young people and non-profits to the state’s largest non- concerned with protecting the hundreds of millions of votes profit provider of care and services for vulnerable young that would be cast on the machines between now and 2008. adults,” said Professor Jon C. Dubin, director of dlinical The Court also expressed concern that the Attorney programs. “Because Covenant House is a 24/7 facility,” he General’s office would use a loophole in the statute and added, “the Youth Advocacy Project also provides evening issue waivers to the voter verified paper ballot requirement law students with an opportunity for hands-on, intensely – further jeopardizing the franchise. supervised legal training.” Faculty and students in the The lawsuit is the first in the nation to successfully Community Law Clinic, the Child Advocacy Clinic, and the challenge electronic voting machines, said Clinical Urban Legal Clinic will participate in the project. Professor Penny Venetis, associate director of the clinic. The grant provides for a Youth Advocacy Project “This shows that our courts take very seriously their role in Bar Fellow, administrative oversight and corporate legal protecting our most fundamental of all rights – the right to assistance by the Community Law Clinic, and legal services vote,” she said. “Despite clear evidence that New Jersey’s by the Child Advocacy Clinic and the Urban Legal Clinic in voting machines are insecure, the other branches of areas of representation most needed by Covenant House government failed to take appropriate action.” She noted clients, such as SSI disability hearings and appeals, foster that the same machines used by almost all of the state’s five care transition, housing issues, and special education. Steve million registered voters have been found too insecure and Hockaday, Class of 2004, has been named the first Youth have been de-commissioned by California, Ohio, Nevada, Advocacy Project Bar Fellow. and New York City. Air America’s “Radio Nation with Laura Superior Court Delivers Landmark Ruling Flanders” featured Venetis and a discussion of the case in The Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division, in a its Feb. 11 program on voting rights. landmark ruling with national significance, affirmed the argument by the Constitutional Litigation Clinic that the Law Students Join in Hurricane Relief Efforts more than one million New Jerseyans who live in private Ten Rutgers law students traveled to the Gulf Coast over communities governed by homeowner associations have winter break as part of the Student Hurricane Network, a fundamental free speech rights under the State Constitution. nationwide mobilization of law students, to assist survivors Originally filed in December 2000, Committee for a Better of hurricanes Katrina and Rita and support legal Twin Rivers v. Twin Rivers Homeowners’ Association was organizations working on behalf of individuals and handled by the clinic on behalf of the ACLU-NJ. Dozens of communities. Five of the students helped hurricane Rutgers law students assisted in the case over the years. survivors in Gulfport, MI and surrounding cities and five The plaintiffs, home owners in the 10,000-resident provided assistance in New Orleans. Funds contributed by community of Twin Rivers in East Windsor, won the right the Class of 1973’s Martin Klepper, a partner at Skadden, to post political signs on lawns, have equal access to the Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Dean Stuart L. Deutsch; community newspaper, and have equitable access to the Provost Steve Diner; and the Student Bar Association community room for meetings for dissident members of the covered the airfare for nine of the students. They stayed homeowner association. free of charge in local churches. Professor Frank Askin, clinic director, commented, The participation of Rutgers students was noted in “For the first time anywhere in the United States, an the Nov. 25 New York Law Journal and Jan. 28 Clarion- appellate court has ruled that such private communities are Ledger (MS). ‘constitutional actors’ and must therefore respect their members’ freedom of speech. The Court recognized that, Faculty of Arts and Sciences just as shopping malls are the new public square, these associations have become and act, for all practical purposes, First Peer Reviewed Jazz Journal like municipal entities unto themselves.” The Associated Music Professors Lewis Porter and John Howland are co- Press, NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Star-Ledger, editors in chief of the first peer reviewed journal of jazz, Record, Trenton Times, New Jersey Law Journal, NJN, Jazz Perspectives. Articles will report on original research NY1, News 12 NJ, and 101.5 AM covered the Feb. 7 and analysis (musical, historical, cultural, or otherwise), announcement of the decision. and the first issue is scheduled for April 2006. According to Professor Porter, “The birth of Jazz Perspectives is an

exciting event in jazz scholarship. The founding of this Lawsuit Challenges Electronic Voting Machines journal caps a long history of efforts to promote jazz The Appellate Division on Feb. 9 announced its agreement scholarship in the academy. That the Newark campus of with concerns raised by the Constitutional Litigation Clinic Rutgers University has undertaken this project is that all electronic voting machines used in the state may particularly fitting, since it is home to the world’s premier violate New Jersey’s Constitution and election laws. The jazz archive, the Institute of Jazz Studies, and the first Court reinstated a lawsuit filed by the clinic in 2004 that graduate-level jazz history degree, the M.A. in Jazz History 2 and Research, that began in September 1997. Jazz These grants are intended to assist faculty in the Perspectives complements the Annual Review of Jazz redesign and development of both existing and new courses Studies published under the auspices of the Institute. in ways that permit them to better incorporate the diversity Porter further explains that there has been an of the student body on the campus. The following awards exponential growth in academic jazz scholarship over the have been made to FAS-N faculty: Kimberly DaCosta last two decades, and that this high-profile growth has Holton, classical and modern languages and literature, become a catalyst for jazz and jazz-related research across “Introducing Portuguese-Speaking Africa to the Portuguese the humanities. “It has fostered several parallel models of and Lusophone world Studies curriculum;” Nick Kline, scholarship, each with their own methodological discourses. visual and performing arts, “Introduction to Photography Jazz studies now range widely from historical, analytical Restructured: Images of Diversity, Difference, and and stylistic studies of jazz as a musical art, to multiple Identity;” Carmen Kynard, urban education, “Teaching models for studying jazz as culture. While there continues for Cultural Diversity and Social Justice: Resources for to be a growing number of large and small commercial High School Teacher Candidates in the Junior Practicum;” periodicals devoted to jazz, this new academic jazz and Carolyn White, urban education, “Enhancing Student’ community has yet to find a collective international forum Diversity Connections in Social Foundations of Urban to promote cross-disciplinary scholarly dialogue. This is the Education.” goal of Jazz Perspectives. As a refereed academic journal with an international editorial board, Jazz Perspectives aims Teachers As Scholars Program to bridge the jazz-as-music and jazz-as-culture divide of Teachers from Newark's public schools are participating contemporary jazz studies, as well as to promote broader this month in Teachers as Scholars (TAS), a national international perspectives on the jazz tradition and its program that provides professional development and life legacy. The pages of the journal will be devoted to all long intellectual growth for K-12 teachers, and fosters aspects of—and all approaches to—jazz scholarship.” academic interaction between teachers and university and college professors. The spring session of TAS is funded by Journal of Public Management and Social Policy grants to the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Symposium Issue on Natural Disasters Experience from the New Jersey Council for the One of the first collections of scholarly articles to address Humanities, through a National Endowment for the the natural disasters of 2005 has been published at Rutgers- Humanities initiative called We the People. Newark. In February, the Journal of Public Management The Spring 2006 Teachers As Scholars classes will and Social Policy released its special symposium issue on be held on March 24 and 31 in Conklin Hall, and feature “Natural Disasters: How do they impact the environment, classes taught by several Rutgers-Newark scholars: “The economy, and people?” Articles address the history of Black Experience” in Literature and Film (Sterling Bland); natural disaster policy and strategies for strengthening local Race, Class, and Political Radicalism in African-American emergency management in the aftermath of Hurricane Literature (Barbara Foley); Ascriptive Citizenship and Katrina. The journal was recently awarded to the Graduate Social Policy: Constructions of Gender, Race, and Department of Public Administration after a national Sexuality (Jyl Josephson); The Modern Civil Rights competitive review process. The new editor-in-chief Movement and the Modernization of American Justice, is Byron E. Price, faculty member of the Public 1955-1965 (Clement Alexander Price); and The Academy Administration department. The journal is co-sponsored by and the Outsider: The Cultural Meanings of Contemporary the National Center for Public Productivity and the Art (Charles Russell) Conference of Minority Public Administrators, a section of the American Society for Public Administration. The Rutgers Business School special issue begins the journal’s 12th volume. For more Merck Summer Ethics Institute at RBS information please visit the journal’s website at Professor Ed Hartman, director of The Prudential Business http://www.ncpp.us/publications.php Ethics Center at Rutgers Business School (RBS), has announced that Merck has granted $20,000 to support a Diversity in Education Grants Awarded to FAS-N Summer Ethics Institute, which will be held at the RBS in Faculty Newark. High school students who will be participating For nine consecutive years, U.S. News & World Report has will be taking a course in bioethics. The program has been identified Rutgers-Newark as the most diverse Ph.D.- designed by Biology Professor Harvey Feder and Jeff granting university in the country, and this diversity Buechner, lecturer in philosophy. presents many educational possibilities to those teaching on the campus. In order to enable full-time faculty and part- EMBA Program News time lecturers to take advantage of these opportunities as Rutgers Executive MBA (EMBA) Program Director much as possible, Rutgers-Newark has awarded several Farrokh Langdana reports that best attended open house for grants to faculty interested in integrating, or further the program was held this past month. The program integrating, the diversity of the student body into sponsors one day per semester “back to school” events for undergraduate courses taught during the spring 2006 alumni, at Engelhard Hall. In addition, the program hosts academic term. events for EMBA spouses and partners, including a tour of the Newark Museum’s Ballantine House. The Wall Street 3 Journal has donated an award for the best EMBA student in other students to attend and present their research at the the strategy course, as a result of the recent first place conference poster session. ranking for the Finance and Strategy sections of the program in BusinessWeek. ______College of Nursing 2. Faculty and Administration College Introduces First Online PhD Program at Rutgers The College of Nursing will introduce the first online Ph.D News program at Rutgers in fall 2006. Rutgers College of Nursing developed the online program to attract doctoral candidates who are interested in enrolling in the nursing Ph.D program Faculty of Arts and Sciences but can’t attend a traditional classroom setting because of Kimberly DaCosta Holton, Portuguese and Lusophone family and work demands. world studies, is the author of Performing Folklore- According to Wendy Nehring, Associate Dean of Ranchos Folcloricos from Lisbon to Newark (Indiana Academic Affiars, “Prospective PhD students today often University Press). The book examines the evolution and work full time and have family obligations, making it significance of Ranchos focloricos, groups of amateur challenging for them to attend traditional classes. musicians and dancers who perform turn-of-the-century Overwhelmingly, prospective students responded that an popular tradition and have acted as cultural barometers of online program would enable them to return to school.” change throughout 20th-century Portugal. According to Nehring, the program will help to address the nursing faculty shortage, as PhD nursing graduates often Mauricio Delgado, psychology, recently gave an invited take academic positions. There are 12 other nursing lecture at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Delgado programs in the county that offer an online PhD program served as senior presenter on a panel of Wesleyan alumni in the behavioral and neural sciences. The goal of the panel Major Study of NJ Nurse Staffing Levels and Work was to promote research and career opportunities in this Environment field to Wesleyan undergraduates. Delgado plans to Linda Flynn, a Rutgers College of Nursing assistant establish a similar program at Rutgers-Newark for alumni professor, has launched one of the largest studies of New of its psychology program. Jersey nurses. The study will explore the impact of nurse staffing levels and work environment on patient outcomes. Yale H. Ferguson, political science, has been elected to the Funded by a $357,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson European Academy of the Sciences and Arts. The European Foundation and contributions from the New Jersey State Academy has nearly 1,200 members and is a transnational, Board of Nursing, the study’s focus is to find out more interdisciplinary body. about the New Jersey’s nursing workforce and to determine how workplace factors influence job satisfaction and A lecture, “Lightness Perception and Lighting and “burnout” among nurses. Environmental Design," was given by Alan Gilchrist, psychology, at the Symposium on Lighting and Environmental Design on March 14, sponsored by the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Committee of Lighting Environmental Design in Neuroscience Architectural Institute of Japan, and supported by the Rutgers-Newark/Israel Biomedical Exchange Illuminating Engineering Institute of Japan, The Color Program Science Association of Japan, The Vision Society of Japan Professor Mark Gluck has announced that the Rutgers- and Optical Society of Japan. Newark/Israel Biomedical Exchange program is growing, with a recent grant of $20,000 in seed funding from Hebrew Eva Giloi, history, recently published an exhibition review University. The grant will make possible a second Rutgers- entitled, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love sponsored conference in Jerusalem, in May 2007, hosted by Prussia,” at H-German. The work can be found at Hebrew University. The conference will be titled http://www.h-net.org/~german/. H-German is a daily “Hippocampus, Memory, and Alzheimer's Disease: Internet discussion forum focusing on scholarly topics in Harnessing Genetic and Computational Technologies.” In German history. addition, the president of the Al Quds Palestinian Medical School has agreed that Al Quds will host a special satellite Peter Golden, history, is on leave this year at the Institute session, at their campus in the West Bank (just east of for Advanced Study in Princeton. He recently spent a week Jerusalem) on "Clinical Perspectives on Alzheimer's in the at the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study in the Social Middle East" with Israeli, Palestinian, Jordanian, Egyptian, Sciences (SCASSS) in Uppsala. While there, he presented a Turkish and other speakers. paper, “Sacral Kingship in Medieval Turkic Central Additional funds to support the conference are Eurasia.” Golden also consulted with an international team being sought by Professor Gluck, who notes that conference of scholars at SCASSS on a project focusing on Turko- organizers intend to provide travel fellowships for R-N and Iranian linguistic, cultural and political ties.

4 Literary works from Mänoa journal, published by the published in the four-volume Encyclopedia Latina (Grolier University of Hawaii Press, are recognized in the current 2005). Laguna has contributed 15 entries to the new Best American Essays of 2005, released in October by Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature (Westport Press, Houghton Mifflin. "The Perpetrator, the Victim, and the 2006). Witness" by Alex Hinton, sociology and anthropology, from Mänoa's volume, “In the Shadow of Angkor: Jonathan Lurie, history, has been invited to serve as an Contemporary Writing from Cambodia,” is listed as one of expert consultant to a law firm preparing an amicus brief on the notable essays published during 2004. The volume as a a detention case for submission to the United States whole is recognized as one of less than a dozen Notable Supreme Court. In addition, Lurie has been invited to Special Issues of 2004. The Best American series has been lecture for a second time to the United States Supreme the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short Court Historical Society. fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Jayne Anne Phillips, English, joined writers Richard Ford, Mark Holzer has been named Rutgers Board of Governors Joy Williams, and Tobias Wolff in a PEN Faulkner Professor of Public Administration. Holzer is chair of the commemoration of the work of Raymond Carver and graduate department of public administration and director celebration of the 30 year anniversary of the publication of of its doctoral program. BOG professorships recognize a Carver's first book of stories; Will You Please Be Quiet, small number of the university’s most distinguished faculty. Please? The sold out event was held at the Folger Library Holzer is an internationally recognized expert in March 10, in Washington, DC. performance measurement and public management. His primary research focus is in public sector productivity – a Byron Price, public administration, is the author of field he helped establish. He is the founder and director of Merchandising Prisoners: Who Really Pays for Prison the National Center for Public Productivity devoted to Privatization (Greenwood Press). Price’s book focuses on improving productivity in the public sector through the private, for-profit operation of federal, state and county research and public service. He also developed the E- correctional facilities, and related industries that finance the Governance Institute, created to explore the ongoing impact construction and renovation of new and current prisons. of the Internet and other information technologies on the Price examines the argument that prison privatization is a productivity and performance of the public sector, and how cost-saving measure and presents research which indicates e-government fosters new and deeper citizen involvement that incarceration may have become a profit-making within the governing process. industry.

Elizabeth Hull, political science, is the author of The Norma Riccucci, public administration, recently won the Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons (Temple University 2006 Charles H. Levine award. This award is granted by the Press). The book studies the issue of denying ex-felons the American Society of Public Administration and the right to vote in the United States and how it disenfranchises National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and nearly one-third of black men in the United States. Public Administration for excellence in teaching, research and service. The award is also given to honor researchers Frieder Jaekle, chemistry, has been awarded the whose work has made an impact on the field. prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. These awards are intended to enhance the careers of the very best Kurt Schock, sociology and anthropology, is the co-winner young faculty members in specified fields of science. of the Comparative Democratization Section of the Currently a total of 116 fellowships are awarded annually in American Political Science Association’s 2005 Best Book seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary of the Year Award. Schock was honored for his book, molecular biology, computer science, economics, Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Non- mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. Democracies, published by the University of Minnesota Press. Kiki Kennedy-Day, classical and modern languages and literature, recently organized a panel for the American Robert Snyder, journalism and media studies, delivered a Academy of Religion on the topic “Current Research on the lecture, “The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Afterlife,” at the academy’s national meeting in Culture in New York", at the New York Public Library for Philadelphia. In addition, Kennedy-Day presented a paper, the Performing Arts on Feb. 9 in conjunction with the “An 11th Century Islamic Perspective on the Afterlife: Ibn exhibit "Vaudeville Nation." Sina’s thoughts on the ma‘âd (return).” Anna Stubblefield, philosophy, is the author of Ethics Asela Laguna, classical and modern language and Along the Color Line (Cornell University Press) Her book literature, is the author of a review essay, “Lopez, addresses the question of whether black Americans should Kimberley S. Latin American Novels of the Conquest. think of each other as an extended racial family and base Reinventing the New World,” in CHASQUI (May 2005). In their treatment of each other on this consideration, or addition she has four essays: “1492,” “Eugenio Maria de eschew racial identity and envision the day when people do Hostos,” “Dr. Antonia Pantoja,” and “Padre Felix Varela,” not think in terms of race. 5 The Institute of Puerto Rican culture in San Juan, Puerto published in Nursing Excellence for Children and Families, Rico sponsored the premier of “If not then, what,” a video Craft-Rosenberg, Martha and Krajicek, Marilyn J., eds. installation of Visual and Performing Arts’ Edin Velez’s (Springer Publishing Co). work as part of a series of video exhibitions under the rubric “Rewind, Rewind.” The installation was on display The Journal of Emergency Nursing selected Linda J. from Oct. 27, 2005 to Jan. 22, 2006 at the Old Armory Scheetz as an assistant editor for research. Space in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.

In October, Judith Weis, biological sciences, attended the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Estuarine Research Federation meeting at which two of her Neuroscience graduate students presented papers. Student Allison Laszlo Zaborsky is the editor of a textbook on Candelmo presented a talk on "Behavior and condition neuroanatomical methods that will be published by responses of young-of-the year bluefish (Pomatomus Springer this month. The book’s 700 pages contains saltatrix) to contaminants via trophic transfer.” Student chapters by leading authorities in the field as well as two James MacDonald presented a talk on "Subtidal animal chapters by Zaborsky. communities in mangrove prop roots: what impact does nearby anthropogenic disturbance have on community composition and diversity?" Also, in mid-November Weis participated in a board meeting of the Association for 3. Newsmakers Women in Science and a meeting of the National Sea Grant Review Panel, both in Washington, DC. Office of the Provost New Jersey Business magazine’s story on the Newark School of Law renaissance included Provost Steven Diner’s comments “No ‘Inherent Authority’ Justifies Warrantless Wiretaps of about the campus’s expansion plans and its role in the city’s Citizens,” an op-ed by Frank Askin, was published in the redevelopment. The March issue of Diversity Inc. included Jan. 2 New Jersey Law Journal. He wrote “An Affirmative an in-depth interview with Diner about Rutgers-Newark, its Legacy at Rutgers Law,” about the origins of the Minority urban and education missions and its home city’s future. Student Program and the role of the late Dean Willard The Feb. 14 Star-Ledger quoted Diner about the debut of Heckel in establishing the MSP, for the Jan. 22 Star- the Newark Targum. Diner’s comments about the Ledger’s “Perspectives” section. University of District of Columbia’s mission were included in an article about the lack of a community college in Cynthia Blum’s “The Flat Tax: A Panacea for Privacy Washington, D.C., in the Dec. 19 issue of Community Concerns?” was published in the June 2005 American College World. University Law Review. Gene Vincenti was quoted in the Star-Ledger’s Feb. 2 “Déjà vu All Over Again: The False Dichotomy Between coverage of the campus’s plans to convert the former law Sanctity of Life and Quality of Life” by Norman Cantor school building at 15 Washington St. into graduate housing. was published in the Fall 2005 Stetson Law Review. The article is an adaptation of a talk presented at Stetson in Spring 2005 as part of a symposium on the Terri Schiavo Faculty of Arts and Sciences case. Fran Bartkowski, English, wrote a column entitled, “Oh for a Perch on a Porch,” in the Nov. 13 issue of the New The Institute on Education Law and Policy, headed by Paul York Times New Jersey Weekly Section. Tractenberg, has received an $80,000 Academic Excellence Award to study New Jersey’s school finance Douglas Coate, economics, discussed New Jersey’s system laws and policy on school district accountability. for awarding liquor licenses for an article in the Feb. 6 Philadelphia Inquirer.

College of Nursing Retired English Professor Louie Crew discussed inviting former Gov. McGreevey to an Episcopal Church fundraiser, Dean Felissa Lashley’s “Emerging infectious diseases at in the Dec. 6 Newsday. the beginning of the 21st century” has been published in the

Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, Jan. 2006. Kim DaCosta Holton, Portuguese and Lusophone world

studies, was quoted in a Feb. 2 Star-Ledger story about Lucille Joel is the author of the fifth edition of The Nursing Portuguese folk music, which also cited her book, Experience: Trends, Challenges and Transitions, published Performing Folkloe: Ranchos Folcloricos from Lisbon to by McGraw-Hill. Newark.

Wendy Neering is the author of “Care for Children and John Floreen, visual and performing arts, was quoted in a Youth With Disabilities or Special Health Care Needs,” Dec. 5 Star-Ledger article about the holiday concert 6 performed by the Rutgers University Chorus at Greystone article about Cummings, and discussed the legacy of the Park Psychiatric Hospital. late Richard P. McCormick for the Jan. 18 Star-Ledger. Price was quoted in a Jan. 1 Associated Press article about The online “Inside Higher Ed: News” on Dec. 30 included plans to build luxury housing in Newark. This story also comments by Barbara Foley, English, about AAUP was reported on 1010WINS and in The Mercury News on policies concerning freedom of speech in classroom Jan 1, philly.com on Jan. 2, and in The Record (Bergen) on discussions and whether course materials are relevant to the Jan. 4. Price also was quoted, along with Norman course topic. Samuels, provost emeritus, in a Jan. 14 Star-Ledger story about the death of Joseph Brown, one of the R-N student H. Bruce Franklin, English, has an excerpt from his leaders of the Conklin Hall takeover in 1969. Price penned forthcoming book, The Most Important Fish in the Sea, in a major article for the February issue of New Jersey the March/April Oceans special issue of Mother Jones. Monthly about South Jersey communities founded by African-Americans in the 1800s. Price was quoted on the Dennis Gale, public administration, was quoted in NJBIZ’s Newark mayoral race by The New York Times in a Feb. 11 Jan. 30 issue about tax breaks for Newark corporations, and article, and the Star-Ledger on Feb. 23. The Ledger also in the Feb. 26 Star-Ledger about the Newark mayoral race. quoted him on Feb. 19 about the Marion Thompson Wright He also was interviewed by WABC-TV Eyewitness News, lecture series and on Feb. 22 about the economic status of about the upcoming mayoral elections, on its Feb. 22 free Northern blacks. Price also appeared in a News 12 NJ broadcast. newscast about the Marion Thompson Wright lecture, on Feb. 18. Alexander Gates, earth and environmental sciences, discussed a mild earthquake in Kinnelon, NJ in the Dec. 14 Sandy Skoglund’s exhibit, “Beyond Real: The Art of Star-Ledger. Sandy Skoglund” was listed by the Dec. 26 Star-Ledger as one of “Ten Exhibits Worth Seeing” in a Best of 2005 arts James Goodman, history, is the author of a review in the roundup. Skoglund is a member of the visual and Jan. 29 issue of the New York Times Book Review. performing arts department. Goodman reviewed Eric Foner’s book, Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. Several media sources quoted Rob Snyder, journalism and media studies, about the New York transit strike, including The NY Times New Jersey Weekly Section, Nov. 27, quoted Newsday (Dec. 12 and 22); the Brian Lehrer Show on Marc Holzer, public administration, about the WNYC (Dec. 20); and the New York Times (Dec. 20). “Reinventing Newark” exhibitions on the campus. He also was quoted in the Dec. 23 Detroit News about the City of School of Law Detroit’s use of grants to renovate buildings near the Super The Feb. 27 Asbury Park Press interviewed Dean Stuart Bowl arena. L. Deutsch about a land-use law issue.

Lisa Hull, political science, was the subject of a Bob Braun Frank Askin commented for several media outlets about column in the Feb. 20 Star-Ledger. The column discussed the confirmation hearings and Senate vote on Judge Samuel her new book, The Disenfranchisement of Ex-Felons. Alito, including Court TV’s “Nancy Grace Show,” NBC

Channel 4, and UPN Channel 9. Askin was interviewed for Guenther Knoblich, psychology, was featured in a recent a Feb. 20 Chicago Tribune report on a local ordinance issue of American Psychologist, an academic journal which requiring homeowners who hold private fundraisers in their is circulated to nearly all research and clinical psychologists homes to pay for the security costs; a Dec. 29 Associated throughout North America. The article features Knoblich’s Press story on upcoming appointments to the New Jersey educational trajectory, his current research and the recent Supreme Court; a Jan. 10 Star-Ledger story about legal Early Career Achievement Award he earned from the ethics; a Dec. 12 New Jersey Lawyer article about pending American Psychological Association. legislation to ban SLAPP suits (Strategic Lawsuits Against

Public Participation); and for Star-Ledger and WPIX Jayne Anne Phillips, English, was interviewed about the Channel 11 (Feb. 9) reports about a police officer West Virginia mining tragedy for the Jan. 5 Chicago suspended for comments made during his off-duty, stand-up Tribune. comic routine. He also was quoted, along with Ron Chen,

in a Jan. 6 article in the Record (Bergen) about Chen’s Lewis Porter, visual and performing arts, commented on nomination as public advocate. Askin was quoted in media the new Jazz at Lincoln Center facility, in the Jan. 24 New coverage about a victory for the Constitutional Litigation York Times. Porter was featured as a commentator on a Clinic in a case involving homeowner associations and recent Black Entertainment Television (BET) documentary residents’ rights. The story was reported in the Feb. 8 about Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. editions of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Star-Ledger, the

Home News Tribune, and he was quoted again on the topic Clement A. Price, history, talked about the late Newark in The Trenton Times on Feb. 14. historian Charles Cummings in a Dec. 23 Star-Ledger

7 The Associated Press quoted Bernard Bell in a Feb. 12 An article in the Asbury Park Press on Nov. 28, on the story on the prospects for legalized sports betting in New possibility of a convicted killer being released on a Jersey. technicality, included comments by George Thomas.

Ron Chen was quoted in the Nov. 22 Post Chronicle about Richard Webster commented for a Dec. 5 Hazardous Samuel Alito’s possible position on religious expression. Waste Superfund Alert report on the environmental law He also discussed that topic in the Dec. 9 online clinic’s intent to sue six companies under the Resource www.MichNews.com, and speculated on the Supreme Conservation and Recovery Act. The clinic is representing Court’s possible stance on diversity, in the Jan. 8 Star- New York/New Jersey Baykeeper and Hackensack Ledger. Riverkeeper. Other media include Feb. 15 Star-Ledger and Feb. 14 Home News Tribune reports on the clinic’s filing of Sherry Colb commented on the unreliability of eyewitness an appeal on behalf of three environmental groups opposed testimony for an article in the Jan. 24 Star-Ledger. to an approved land swap in Monroe; and Feb. 10 Gannett and Feb. 21 Record stories on the licensing of the Oyster In the Feb. 20 NJBIZ, Charles Davenport discussed a legal Creek nuclear power plant. challenge to investment tax credits in Ohio that could impact New Jersey businesses.

A Jan. 19 USA Today article about Iraq’s restructuring of its Rutgers Business School foreign debt included a comment by Anna Gelpern. Dean Howard Tuckman commented on supply chain management programs at business schools, as part of a Feb. Comments by Suzanne Goldberg were included in Jan. 13 8 article that appeared in The Herald-News and The Record. Arkansas News Bureau and Jan. 14 Arkansas Democrat- Gazette stories about an ACLU petition before the Arkansas Michael Crew, finance and economics, commented on Supreme Court to uphold its ruling to allow gays to serve as nuclear plant safety in a Feb. 12 article in the Asbury Park foster parents. Press about Oyster Creek power plant.

Barbara Hoffman was quoted by the Associated Press The Nov. 28 issue of NJBIZ included a Q & A with Brenda Feb. 7 about the employment rights of cancer survivors. Hopper, director, Small Business Development Center, on the role of the Small Business Development Centers. John Payne was a panelist along with former State Hopper also was quoted in a second article on how Supreme Court Justice Peter Verniero on the NJN “Due entrepreneurs profit from the SBDC. The Dec. 12 issue of Process” show entitled “U.S. Supreme Court: What’s NJBIZ quoted Hopper about the impact of the SBDC, while Next?” The segment aired on Feb. 19 and 21. Payne the February issue of New Jersey Business quoted Hopper commented for a Feb. 10 Star-Ledger article on a about the economic impact that SBDC clients have on the developer’s housing plan that involves affordable housing state. units and a Feb. 12 Record story on the siting of cellular towers. BusinessWeek’s Feb. 6 UpFront section included comments by Don McCabe, management and global business, about Jim Pope was interviewed about the New York City transit cheating among various disciplines at universities. strike by several media including the Voice of America and 101.5 AM. Gene Slowinski, director, RUTAP, was the subject of a Q & A on corporate growth, in the Feb. 13 NJBIZ. Bill Potter was quoted in a story about a Princeton Junction redevelopment plan, in the Dec. 14 Times of Trenton. School of Criminal Justice Michael Wagers’s comments about the increase in gun Sabrina Safrin commented for the Jan. 24 Star-Ledger violence were carried by the Jersey Journal (Dec. 29). The about the patent infringement suit against the maker of Denver Post also quoted him in a Dec. 9 story on efforts to BlackBerry wireless service. reduce violent crime in Denver, while the Jan. 4 Star- Ledger quoted him about the increase in murders in New The Star-Ledger (Dec. 16) talked to Diana Sclar about a Jersey cities, and the Jan. 9 Trenton Times quoted him dispute concerning part of an island in Lake Hopatcong. about the homicide increase in that city. The Jan. 11 New York Times quoted Wagers about Newark’s increase in gun The Star-Ledger’s Jan. 12 coverage of the New Jersey violence. The Jan. 20 Star-Ledger quoted him in an article Supreme Court ruling that a group of Livingston residents about the city of Newark’s new crime-fighting tools, while challenging wetlands development on neighboring property an Associate Press story quoting Wagers about the increase do not have the right to a hearing before an administrative in homicides in Trenton was picked up by nbc10.com and law judge included a comment by Carter Strickland, the Trenton Times on Jan. 20. The Feb. 5 Star-Ledger acting director of the Environmental Law Clinic, which quoted him in an article on rising gun use in Newark. represented the residents. Wagers was interviewed on the topic of rising gun violence 8 by Fox 5 News on Jan. 4, and by UPN 9 on the same day. A Feb. 21 Associated Press article on Operation CeaseFire ______efforts in Chicago also quoted Wagers. 4. Upcoming Events &

College of Nursing Conferences 101.5, WKXW-FM, interviewed Dean Felissa R. Lashley No Country is an Island: Figures of Freedom in concerning the C-Diff bacteria and antibiotics treatment, Recent Caribbean (American) Art at Robeson which aired on Dec. 8. Gallery through April 6 “No Country is an Island: Figures of Freedom in Recent Rachel Jones was interviewed by WKXW-FM, 101.5, and Caribbean (American) Art” opened at the Paul Robeson WCTC-AM for their World AIDS Day news stories which Gallery on March 2. The exhibit presents the work of 11 aired on Dec. 1. WBGO-FM interviewed Jones for a story artists from the Caribbean and the United States who on the computer video vignettes project to reduce the grapple with the effects of post-colonial freedom either HIV/AIDS risk among young urban women. The interview directly or indirectly. The exhibition runs through April 6 aired on the news program, WBGO Journal, on Feb. 24. and will feature a special symposium on April 5 with contributions from internationally renowned scholars on The Star Ledger interviewed Wendy Nehring for an article Caribbean culture, history and art. For information, contact on how nursing schools and colleges are preparing their Lisa Hasslebrook at x1610. The gallery is open Monday nursing students, which was published in the education through Thursday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and on Wednesday section in its Jan. 22 edition. Nehring was quoted about the from noon-7 p.m. use of patient simulators in the Jan. 9 issue of ADVANCE for Nurses. New Jersey End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium March 23-24 Julia Plotnick was profiled in the “Neighbors” feature of The College of Nursing Center for Professional the Dec. 15 Star-Ledger, including quotes about her work Development will host the first annual conference of the with the U.S. Public Health Service. The Dec. 5 Courier- New Jersey End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium at News also carried a story on Plotnick’s receiving the Diva the Sheraton Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J. on March 23-24. Award from the Institute for Nursing of the New Jersey Julia Duane Quinlan, mother of Karen Ann Quinlan, whose State Nursing Association Foundation. legal battle to remove her daughter from a respirator changed the use of life-support for the dying, will speak at In the Jan. 23 Philadelphia Inquirer, Beverly Whipple the conference. discussed her research about women’s sexual stimulation. Seventh Annual Applied and Urban Ethics Center for Molecular and Conference March 25 Debates surrounding the biomedical enhancement of the Behavioral Neuroscience human body will be explored during “Perfect Minds in Gyorgy Buzsaki was featured in a Feb. 9 story in the Star- Perfect Bodies: The Ethics of Biomedical Enhancement,” Ledger about the design of his home in Millburn. the Seventh Annual Applied and Urban Ethics Conference, which will take place on Saturday, March 25 from 9 a.m.-5 The work of -Paula Tallal and April Benasich in assessing p.m. in Ackerson Hall, Room 123. The ethics of enhancing developmental difficulties in babies was cited in a sports performance; ethical and cultural implications of a boston.com online article on Dec. 26. Benasich also was major extension of the human life span that may result from quoted in a Dec. 27 program that aired on Boston’s NPR anticipated biomedical advances; and issues surrounding station, WBUR, and also was carried on the station’s enhancement therapies (especially those that are gene - website, wbur.org. based) are some of the topics to be discussed. Speakers include: Adrienne Asch, Henry R. Luce Professor in Office of Housing and Biology, Ethics and Politics of Reproduction, Wellesley College and Dr. Ron Green, Eunice and Julian Cohen Residence Life Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, Jaray Harvey-Gillespie was quoted in Bob Braun’s Dec.15 Dartmouth College. For information, call 201-902-9525. column in the Star-Ledger, talking about college students and stress. Khmer Rouge Photo Exhibition Opens at Dana Library on March 28 “Khmer Rouge, Then and Now: A Photographic History,” will be on display in Dana Library beginning March 28 through April 30. The exhibit, which is being organized by Honors College students studying transitional justice and the Documentation Center of Cambodia features photos from the DC-Cam archive that portray crimes carried out by 9 the genocidal Khmer Rouge during its reign. The exhibition Chief Justice Joseph Weintraub Lecture April 28 opens with lectures and a reception which will take place in On April 18 New Jersey Supreme Court Associate Justice the Dana Room of the Dana Library from noon-4 p.m. on Virginia A. Long ’66 will deliver the 24th Annual Chief March 28. For information, call ext. 5222. Justice Joseph Weintraub Lecture. Her topic is “The Purple Thread: Social Justice As a Recurring Theme in the First R-N Conference on Sexual Violence Decisions of the Poritz Court.” Chief Justice Deborah Prevention March 28 Poritz will retire at the end of the Court’s current term. The Rutgers-Newark will present a free conference open to all Annual Alumni Judges Dinner will follow the lecture. students, faculty and staff, about the incidence and consequences of sexual violence on university campuses. Cornwall Center Annual Conference June 13 The conference will take place at the Paul Robeson Campus The Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies' annual Center, 9 am to 1 pm. Expert speakers will present the conference, "Housing in the Urban Essex County Area: services and resources available to the R-N campus Issues, Opportunities & Needs for the Future" will be held community. Speakers include Marcia Brown, Vice on Tuesday, June 13 from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM at the Paul Provost; Lynne Logatto, MSN, APNC Associate Director Robeson Campus Center, 350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Health Services; Ursula Leibowitz-Johnson, MSW, Blvd. Newark, NJ 07102. This one-day conference will Director, Essex Rape Care Center; Clara Rodriguez, JD, explore issues related to the housing situation in the urban Director, Sex Crimes Unit, Essex County Prosecutor's Essex County area- specifically Newark, East Orange, Office; and others. For more information contact Lynne Irvington and Orange. While recognizing the unique nature Logatto [email protected] 353-5232 x 227. of each city, the conference will also address cross-cutting themes such as: identification of housing challenges; Khmer Rouge Photo Exhibition Opens at Dana ongoing discrimination in housing markets; prevention of Library on March 28 homelessness; resources available to meet these challenges; “Khmer Rouge, Then and Now: A Photographic History,” and necessary steps to bring about change. The conference will be on display in Dana Library beginning March 28 will begin with a plenary session in which representatives through April 30. The exhibit, which is being organized by from the four cities discuss housing trends in their Honors College students studying transitional justice and respective communities. After the plenary session, three the Documentation Center of Cambodia features photos concurrent sessions will address key housing issues from the DC-Cam archive that portray crimes carried out by including: senior housing, affordable home ownership, and the genocidal Khmer Rouge during its reign. The exhibition affordable rental housing. Finally, the day will conclude opens with lectures and a reception which will take place in with a discussion of the next steps that can be taken to the Dana Room of the Dana Library from noon-4 p.m. on improve the housing situation in the urban Essex County March 28. For information, call ext. 5222. area. The conference is free and open to the public, however, RSVPs are required. Please RSVP to Ms. Irene Earth Day Events Scheduled for April 19 & 21 Welch at 973-353-1750 ext. 221 or [email protected] Rutgers-Newark will celebrate Earth Day 2006 with two events, for which volunteer participants are solicited. On ______April 19, student, staff and faculty volunteers will plant a perennial trial garden on the Norman Samuels Plaza, which 5. Student News will demonstrate the use of indigenous and sustainable plants with visual interest over four seasons. On April 21, Social Work Student Organizations Donate Funds students, staff and faculty volunteers will assist the Greater The Social Work Student Organizations of FAS-N and Newark Conservancy with spring planting at their Urban University College recently donated $500 to the Maria L. Environmental and Education Center on Springfield Varisco Rogers Charter School of Newark. The Avenue. More information, and a volunteer sign up is at organizations raised the funds through their annual talent www.newark.rutgers.edu/earthday. The event is sponsored show, which was held in November. The talent show by the Office of Communications, the Honors College, featured 20 student acts and attracted nearly 400 people. Office of Housing and Residence Life, and Physical Plant. Each year, the talent show serves as a platform for students to showcase their talents, raises awareness of the social Friends of Law Library Panel Discussion April 27 work major and raises funds to benefit a community organization. On April 27 from 6 – 8 pm, the library will hold a Friends of the Law Library panel discussion on “After Kelo: Eminent Domain in New Jersey.” Public Advocate Ronald Honors College Student Named Junior Chen ’83, State Senator Nia Gill ’75 and Professors Fellow of AAPS Bernard Bell and John Payne will participate. Associate Kehinde Togun, an Honors College senior majoring in Dean Carol Roehrenbeck ’77 will serve as moderator. Political Science, was recently appointed Junior Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPS). The AAPS Junior Fellow program recognizes outstanding undergraduate students for their achievements 10 in analyzing social problems and for their promise of becoming tomorrow’s outstanding social scientists.

Law Student Elected Governor of Third Circuit of the ABA’s Law Student Division Second year law student Ericke Cage has been elected governor of the Third Circuit of the American Bar Association’s Law Student Division. As governor, Cage will lead the implementation of all ABA/LSD’s programs and initiatives within the Third Circuit, which encompasses law schools in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. He will also serve on the Law Student Division’s Board of Governors and as a member of one of the Division’s standing committees. Cage previously served as an ABA/LSD representative, circuit lieutenant, and as student liaison to the Committee on Corporate Counsel of the ABA's Section of Litigation.

Nursing EOF Students Attend Leadership Conference Seven Nursing EOF students attended The Carroll F.S. Hardy National Black Student Leadership Development Conference at the Hyatt Regency-Crystal City in Arlington, VA. The students were selected based on their leadership skills.

NCAS student Grace Kim’s fundraising efforts for Hurricane Katrina victims were the subject of a feature article in The Randolph Reporter on Dec. 15. Kim is a freshman.

NCAS psychology major Igmary Torres, a senior, was featured in a Dec. 10 story in The Record (Bergen) about internships at the North Jersey Development Center.

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